[HECnet] Older VAXVMS Install kits?

[Cory Smelosky]

On 23 Dec 2012, at 17:59, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

On 12/23/2012 05:56 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
As i'm not getting anywhere with my TOPS-10 endeavours, I thought i'd
try something else: older VAXVMS in SIMH's VAX-11/780 simulator. ;)

1). What would be the best/most interesting version to try? 2). Where
would I get install media for these older versions? ;)

I have a bunch of older VMS distributions.   I don't know if they're
available anywhere else or not; I would assume so but am not sure.   At
least several 3.x and 4.x distributions, going back to 3.0.   Let me know
if they're wanted and I can put them up somewhere.

Please upload them, I am quite interested in older VMS.

I don't want to squirt them around publicly.   Do you have a place on
HECnet that I can copy them to?

Unfortunately, my link is currently down (Steve's been busy and we've been unable to quite get MWATCH working for me), so we'll need to use some other method. Can you dump them on a system here via scp? I have a pentium II I can give easy access to for that.


I'd say 4.7 for speed and period-correctness, 5.5 for feature fulness.

Maybe i'll go with both!

Do it!

I will!


The last release of VMS to run on an 11/780 was, I believe, v6.2.

I have a copy of 6.2 in some file format nothing knows. VMS doesn't even seem to.

Send me a copy and I'll see if I can figure it out.

I found it here: http://wdl1.winworldpc.com/Abandonware%20Operating%20Systems/Misc/OpenVMS%206.2%20%5bVAX%5d.7z ( I hope you can handle 7-zip. It's probably really VMS backup format and I was using it wrong. ;) )


                          -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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